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You can set a quick timer by typing, "set timer X minutes" into Google. Once you hit enter, the timer will count down, and then sound off when the time expires with an obnoxious, possibly never ending ...

The report mentions that this Google Search feature is working in the same way it used to do previously. Currently, when users ask Google to "set a timer," (without specifying the amount of time) it ...